The Death of Doctor Island Movie

peter heyneman · 16 Oct 2006, 14:19 · from 2006-October.txt.gz

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From: pheyneman at hotmail.com (peter heyneman)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:19:47 +0000
Subject: (urth) The Death of Doctor Island Movie
In-Reply-To: <a0dc3dcf0610160655t453026deqcb91950a73953cb0 at mail.gmail.com>
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In terms of translation to pure visuals, definitely. WK, like most of his 
books, has so much shifty narrator business and perspective-skewing 
mysterious detail-dropping that turning it into a movie would be almost 
impossible to do right--it'd lose much of its quality and become another dry 
Sword and Sorcery tale. His short stories, especially from that era, rely 
less on the voice and more on the image.

In terms of appeal to 15 year old WOW players, I agree Wizard/Knight is 
perfect.

--p


>From: "Kurt Schwind" <kurt.schwind at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: kurt at slithytoves.org,The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>Subject: Re: (urth) The Death of Doctor Island Movie
>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:55:47 -0500
>
>You think that that was more accessible than say Wizard Knight?
>
>On 10/16/06, peter heyneman <pheyneman at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > That's excellent.
> > I always thought that the trio of IDD, DrOfDI, and DofDrI was the most
> > accessible and visual of GWs works and would make an facinating triptych 
>  of
> > short films. Hopefully this will not be awful and they'll make two more.
> >
> > --p
> >
> >
> > >From: Jesper Svedberg <jsvedberg at gmail.com>
> > >Reply-To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
> > >To: urth at lists.urth.net
> > >Subject: (urth) The Death of Doctor Island Movie
> > >Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:26:01 +0200
> > >
> > >I just found this web site:
> > >
> > >http://www.doctorisland.com/
> > >
> > >Has anyone heard of this project before? I bit of googling brings up
> > >that it's a short film of about 20 minutes. There's no mention of when
> > >it will be released, but they have apparently shot most of it already
> > >and is now in a post production phase.
> > >
> > >I was a bit surprised when I found it, since I hadn't heard anything
> > >about it before, but the stills on their homepage definitely look
> > >impressive and professional, so I really hope that we will actually see
> > >the finished product some time.
> > >
> > >
> > >    // Jesper
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